Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B9 on 7 July 2008 at 16:30 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 16:30 on Monday 7 July 2008. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2008
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Matiz and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4729, longitude -1.86335, in the B9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B10 0TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820D182103
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2016.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 15 February 2016
2 m awayRef 2016200050132
Serious
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3 m awayRef 2023201415130
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 2 June 2019
12 m awayRef 2019200852551
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 22 December 2025
22 m awayRef 2025201686464
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 24 April 1989
28 m awayRef 19892000E0791
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 10 May 1982
28 m awayRef 19822000E1215
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200820D182103 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Birmingham road accident statistics for 2008.